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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS Fellow Since 2011

Robert Owens Carpenter, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Assoc of Prog Dir in Surg
  • Am Soc for Metabolic & Bariatric Surg

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

10414 FM 1670

Salado, TX 76571

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • gastric banding
  • laparoscopic gastric banding
  • laparoscopic gastric bypass
  • roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • abdominal pain
  • adhesion removal
  • appendectomy
  • malrotation

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • cholecystectomy
  • gallstone disease
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • ventral hernia

Minimal Access Surgery

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

  • component separation
  • epidermal cyst

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery

Hospital Appointments

Vanderbilt University Hospital

Nashville, TN

Attending

07/2008—09/2009

Scott & White Memorial Hospital

Temple, TX

Attending

10/2009—06/2020

The Physicians Centre

College Station, TX

Senior Staff

11/2021—Present

Academic Appointments

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Nashville, TN

Instructor

07/2008—09/2009

Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Bryan, TX

Assistant Professor

05/2010—08/2017

Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Bryan, TX

Clinical Associate Professor

09/2017—Present